Senior police officer in cocaine-turned-soda saga granted bail
The senior police officer being held by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) in connection with the cocaine-turned-baking soda saga has been granted bail by the Human Rights Court in Accra.
DSP Gifty Mawuenyega Tehoda, Deputy head of the Commercial Crimes Unit of the Police CID, was granted bail in the sum of GH¢50,000 with two sureties to be justified when she appeared in court on Thursday.
The Human Rights Court had ordered the BNI and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to produce and explain why they have kept her in custody since her arrest on December 29, 2011.
According to an Accra-based radio station, Joy Fm, the court upheld that the BNI breached provisions in the constitution by holding her beyond the 48 hours stipulated by law. Meanwhile, the BNI has served notice that it will re-arrest her.
In another development, a nasty scene was said to have erupted at the premises of the court when journalists detailed to cover the court proceedings were assaulted by some security personnel.
A female photographer working with the Daily Guide newspaper, who tried to take shots of the accused, had her camera taken from her and badly manhandled by the security.
According to Joy Fm, the Daily Guide photographer whose name was given as Gifty Lawson was “badly manhandled” by the BNI officials.
Her clothes were torn off exposing her undies as the security personnel gripped her firmly and whisked her away in a Toyota Corolla car with registration number GE 1584 W. Lawson has since been taken to an unknown location.
Having suffered almost similar fate a day before, she was said to have gone to the court with her bodyguard, but unfortunately, he too was overpowered and bundled into a Pick-Up with registration number GR 1109 -10.
The BNI was directed by President J.E.A. Mills to investigate how a cocaine exhibit in a drugs related trial later turned out to be baking powder. The BNI has since presented its report to the President. Summary of the report has since been made public.
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